SIMON
KENTON-SUPPLEMENTARY NOTE.
R. W. MCFARLAND.
Inasmuch as I had personally known only
a part of Simon
Kenton's family, and the record of the
William Kenton family
gave only two or three items about
Simon, I consulted one of
Simon's descendants, and he gave the
number of children of each
marriage, to the best of his
knowledge. The date of the
second marriage was taken from the
county records. From the
same gentleman I got a clue which
enabled me to locate Simon
Kenton's family Bible - in the
northwestern part of Indiana. I
have a transcript from that book, which
enables me to correct
two errors in the article on Simon
Kenton: viz. the number of his
children, and the second marriage. The information was re-
ceived too late for the January
Quarterly. The name of the sec-
ond wife was Elizabeth Jarboe, and the
marriage took place in
Kentucky on March 27, 1798. Of the first
marriage there were
two sons and two daughters; of the
second, one son and five
daughters, all now dead.
The county record which I consulted did
not give the age of
persons obtaining marriage licenses, and
the Simon Kenton who
was married in 1818 was probably the son
of the pioneer. At
that date the son was about twenty-five
years old; but of him I
knew nothing until I obtained the
aforesaid transcript.
William Kenton, Thomas Dowden, and
Stephen Jarboe mar-
ried sisters, daughters of Thomas
Cleland. These and others
were of the colony led by William Kenton
to Kentucky in 1783.
Martha Dowden and Elizabeth Jarboe,
wives of Simon Kenton,
were cousins, and both were nieces of
Mary Kenton.
The grandson of Simon, who sent me the
transcript spoken
of, also informs me that sixteen
grandsons of the old pioneer
served in the army in the civil war,
several of whom fell in that
contest. My informant, L. G. Kenton, of
Monticello, Ind., being
one of the sixteen, -worthy sons of the
illustrious ancestor.
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